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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:12 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Kallol Biswas <kallol@efi.com>
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Subject: Re: lseek SEEK_END fails on a Toshiba 6007MB disk.
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On Feb 20, 2002  15:40 -0800, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> offset = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> 
> lseek: Value too large for defined data type

You need to use a 64-bit lseek (e.g. llseek or lseek64).  This can
be done with '#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE' and/or '#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE'
and/or '#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'.

Cheers, Andreas
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